Google And Microsoft: 'Today Our Two Companies Stand Together' Against U.S. Ban On Email Surveillance Disclosures
To followers of technology issues, there are many days when Microsoft and Google stand apart. But today our two companies stand together. We both remain concerned with the Government’s continued unwillingness to permit us to publish sufficient data relating to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) orders.
... For example, we believe it is vital to publish information that clearly shows the number of national security demands for user content, such as the text of an email. These figures should be published in a form that is distinct from the number of demands that capture only metadata such as the subscriber information associated with a particular email address.
Microsoft and Google sued the U.S. government back in June, in the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, to disclose information about how it responds to requests by the
The two companies will now begin litigating against the government.
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